Exhibition collection species list of Eskişehir Osmangazi University Zoology Museum

Biodiversity museums are biological libraries that introduce life thanks to the specimens they have. ESOGÜ Zoology Museum is one of the few biodiversity museums in Türkiye. It has been serving as a university museum since it was established in 2007. This study aims to share the existing records in the museum by preparing the first list of the species exhibited in the ESOGÜ Zoology Museum. In the study, 205 samples were collected from 46 provinces in Türkiye , and 5 different foreign countries between 1987 and 2012. Inventory registration numbers are provided for the specimens in a code pattern consisting of six letters and six numbers. In the list, the phylum, class, order and families of the species, the date of collection or acquisition, the locality, and the person who collected it are provided. There are 24,241 specimens, 21,411 of which are Insecta, registered in the inventory of the museum. As of June 2023, 698 examples are presented to the visitors in the exhibition hall of the collection. 205 of 317 specimens from Cnidaria, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata phylum, constituting the main collection, were evaluated. As a result of this study 169 species, 14 of which were at the genus level, belonging to the 18 classes, 69 orders, and 136 families were listed.